Simrat Tatla's Blog

Being born as apart of a generation that grew up witnessing, experiencing, and depending on the high advancements of technology, or the term I have grown to appreciate (and love saying), being an Echo Boomer, has had me spending most of my time either checking my emails, on social media sites, reading other blogs, texting away on my phone, or doing all of these activities at once on my iPhone.

I remember when I was 8-years-old and I got my first Hotmail account on our big box of a computer that took up a whole quarter of our living room (and which my dad still for some strange reason will not let us throw away even though we got a new computer a few years ago).

Our old school computer

Now here I am, 11 years later, sitting at home typing this post on my MacBook Pro using a wireless internet connection while at the same time listening to my sister telling me that her school district has now made a twitter account so students can follow them and see any announcements they make, such as having a snow day.

It astonishes me how much technology can change during time and how it takes less and less time for companies to come out with all these new and advanced products.

Take Apple, for example. Two years ago I purchased an iPhone 3G and within those two years Apple has come out with the iPhone 3Gs, the iPhone 4, and just recently the iPhone 4s; I’ve even heard rumors of the iPhone 5 coming out in the summer of 2012.

Companies have always been targeting my generation with newer, must-have technologies and I have to admit, I just recently purchased the new iPhone 4s, and I don’t know how I lived without it.

Here’s a post from one of my favourite blogs by Bethany Joy Galeotti, reminiscing the good ol’ days when we used to talk to people in person before trying to contact them through facebook, twitter, texts, etc. etc.

BJG’s blog